Big deer Hair fly

Had a lovely day on the River wye today watching trout taking lots of mayfly as they hatched and as they floated downstream. You just forget how big these flies are. It was Martins first time but he had 5 great fish that came to a big deer hair contraption. It was just big and bushy and what the fish wanted.

Seaumas and Phil had a few too. Phil made friends with the cows who stood in the river with him most of the day.

I managed 4 fish that all came to the Grey Woolf. They were taking happily in the morning but when the hatch got bigger i was left with lots of takes but no fish. My best was a lovely big headed slim brownie maybe a pound and a half but could be 2 and a half if he keeps eating those mayflies.